Thursday 8 February 2018

Something different

I have just picked up what appears to be a Death's-head Hawk-moth pupa lying in the middle of a path. It appears undamaged externally although I expect it is probably dead. The path is not far from where I usually grow potatoes but I have no idea how it got to where it was.



Andy Newbold, Sibford Ferris, Oxon.


2 comments:

  1. What an odd find. It does look undamaged so it would be worth hanging on to "just in case".

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  2. I will keep it "just in case". I think it probably spent a very cold night on the surface so I don't have any great hopes. I have discovered that a tractor with a spiked roller was run along the path where I found it so it may have been unearthed by this. Some years ago I did find an empty pupa case in my potato patch which perhaps suggested that that one had actually survived and emerged as an adult.

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